Bicycle Illinois will not be held in 2018.
Instead, we are currently developing an exciting
new week long cycling event to be held in central
Illinois from Sat. Sep. 8th - Fri. Sep. 14th
to celebrate Illinois' bicentennial. Stay tuned
for more information about that new event coming
soon!

Major Previous Bicycle Illinois
Specific Updates

We now allow trikes (any bicycle with three or
more wheels) to participate in our events. However,
all participants riding trikes must provide their
own on road support for them at all times because
we cannot guarantee that we will be able to easily
or quickly transport them off the road in any support
vehicle in case of mechanical breakdown. In addition,
we still cannot accomodate any trikes on any of
our transportation services. Click
Here for more information.

Room blocks will no longer be available in Cairo,
Carbondale, or Centralia, you will need to call
for the best rate yourself. We strongly recommend
making your reservation as soon as possible to
avoid any availability issues from other participants
or anyone else, secure the lowest rate, and assure
yourself a room, particularly in Carbondale due
to the solar eclipse event. Click
Here for more information the Cairo
hotel, Click
Here for more information the Carbondale
hotel, and Click
Here for more information the Centralia
hotel.

The Champaign hotel has changed to the Hyatt
Place. Click
Here for more information.

The tour ending location
has changed to DuSable Harbor which
has served as a rest stop on the Tri-State Tour
events for several
years. All related information
has been updated. Click
Here for more information.

Short term parking will available
directly at the ending location
if you have friends or family picking
you up.

Dinner is no longer included with registration.
All participants will be responsible for finding
and paying for dinner on their own.

We significantly dropped the price of Bicycle Illinois
by no longer including dinner with registration! The
price of the full tour from Cairo to Chicago for an
entire week of cycling is now only $499! That’s
$200 less than before! Click
Here for more information about our prices.

We will still list the restaurants we had
previous used for our included dinners as our "recommended
dinners" on the
in town cue sheets and maps. Click
Here for
more information.

On the arrival day in Cairo, dinner will
no longer be served directly at our main lodging
site
and
the main check in and opening meeting will
now begin at 4:30 pm (previously 6:00 pm).
This will still give you plenty
of daylight to bike
to and from dinner and either set
up your tent and sleeping bag or bike back
over
to the supported
hotel and get ready for the ride
the next day. Click
Here for more information.

Ice cream stores have been added to list of in
town facilities for all stopping towns!

Our main lodging site in Champaign has changed
to the McKinley Events Center. Click
Here for more information.

The price of all transportation services has
increased by $10.00 as a result of increased costs
from our vendors.

The first
eight participants to register for the transportation
service from Chicago after the end of the tour will
transport both their bicycle and their baggage
directly with them aboard the Amtrak train. Click
Here for more information.

The price for the transportation service from
and to the mid-route stopping towns both before
the start after the end of the tour has decreased
depending on the distance to travel. Click
Here for more information.

Day 3, Rest Stop 2 changed to Farina, IL

Registration for the transportation services
To Carbondale and Cairo Before the Start of the
Tour and From Chicago After the End of the Tour
no longer includes your individual Amtrak train
ticket – you will need to purchase it on
your own. The prices of these transportation
services have been reduced accordingly.

The Effingham Main Lodging site now has air conditioning!

The recommeded dinner in Kankakee is at
Oliver's Bar and Grill which is conveniently located
directly inside the supported hotel. Click
Here for more information.

Day 6, Rest
Stop 2 changed to Oakwood Park in Matteson.

Day 2, Rest
Stop 1 changed to Royalton Curtis Ball Field

Based on participant
feedback we will no longer offer
the same box lunches we had previously offered
for any of our tours and currently
will not serve any type of lunch on
the
road.

Breakfast served by us at our main
lodging site will end at 6:15 am and not 6:30
am to ensure you
have at least 15 minutes to pack your gear up
and get ready to ride before our group departure
at
6:30
am.

We have changed the Chicago hotel to the Congress
Plaza Hotel for all dates for all events.

All road name changes across the entire state
have been incorporated into all maps and cue sheets.

We now stay the first night in Cairo instead
of Carbondale

You will need you arrive at the start of
the tour more prepared. Many services and
facilities available in other stopping towns
will either be limited or not available in
Cairo.

We now depart directly out of Cairo at
our normal group departure time of 6:30
am.

The first ride segment of the tour is
a loop to the southern tip of Illinois
and the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers.
An additional rest
stop has
been added at the Cairo main
lodging site on the way out
of Cairo.

We will no longer need to transport
any participants to
Cairo from Carbondale on Sunday morning.

Site maps posted for all main lodging sites under
the individual stopping town pages

If you register
for a transportation service mid-route pick up
or drop off we may have you carry your bicycle
and baggage directly on the Amtrak train with you
and we may not transport them on a separate vehicle
because the Amtrak train can accommodate up to
4 bicycles on each train in order to ensure the
timely arrival of our vehicles from Chicago to
Carbondale and Cairo by
not having to stop along the way.

Registration for non-riding participants has
added.

Elevation and gross climb profiles added for
every potential ride.

Participants staying at the supported hotels
will have the continent breakfast provided at each
supported hotel that starts at 6:00 am and begin
riding directly from the supported hotel.

On road and in town cue sheets and maps will
be available with directions directly to and from
the supported hotel in each town.

The group departure for everyone has moved to
6:30 am from 6:00 am to accommodate participants
staying in the supported hotel eating the continental
breakfast there. This applies both to participants
staying at the main lodging site and to participants
staying at the supported hotel. Breakfast
will be served at the main lodging site from 5:30
- 6:15 am.

A century option
will be available every day for
both Bicycle Illinois and the Tri-State Tour #2!
You'll have the option of cycling over 700
miles in 7 days! No other ride in the midwest
even comes close to that amount of mileage!